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wild_karrde Registered: Oct '99	Date Posted: 10/14/07 9:10am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 10/14/07 6:18pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Vengance1003 posted: Just a question, how is "The Wickerman" (original) considered a horror film? The ending to The Wickerman absolutely makes my stomach turn inside out. I am so absolutely horrified that I almost can't watch the ending. It just goes on forever, that long walk and Woodward's performance sells the raw terror of it all. Like Blair Witch, it is rather like watching a snuff film. For me, horror has to do just that: horrify me. Sometimes it scares me, sometimes it disgusts me, sometimes it does neither of those things. But there has to be some sort of a 'moral revulsion.' -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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DarthLassic007 Registered: Nov '02	Date Posted: 10/16/07 8:25pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	I love horror movies. The slasher is my favorite of the genre. Horror movies need to be scary. But slasher movies need a great killer, high body count, hot girls, and gore. Friday the 13th and Halloween are still the best. -----signature----- Veni, Vidi, Vici. - Julius Caesar
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 10/29/07 6:10am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	^This is why I don't think slasher movies are horror, and why they don't even had that function.
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Cobranaconda Title: Ex-FF-UK: South CR Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 10/29/07 6:16am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Horror, to me, is more about being unnerving than being "jump out of your seat" scary. Hence why the Japanese make the best horror. Ringu is bloody terrifying, and Hollywood destroyed it by making it silly. As for Wicker Man, I agree that it is pretty unnerving... for Christians. I nearly cheered the first time I saw it -----signature----- "We find that your American beer is a little like making love in a canoe." "Making love in a canoe?" "It's ****ing close to water."
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DarkPrince Registered: Nov '05	Date Posted: 10/29/07 6:23am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"? - Date Edited: 10/29/07 6:23am (1 edits total) Edited By: DarkPrince
	Cobranaconda posted: Horror, to me, is more about being unnerving than being "jump out of your seat" scary. Hence why the Japanese make the best horror. Ringu is bloody terrifying, and Hollywood destroyed it by making it silly. As for Wicker Man, I agree that it is pretty unnerving... for Christians. I nearly cheered the first time I saw it I think the same can also apply to Ju-On: The Grudge. I also think horror movies shouldn't really include the "jump out of your seat" type movies. Those would mostly be considered thrillers/suspense. Stuff like the Saw movies are what I would mostly consider horror movies. The first Saw freaked me out completely. -----signature----- GamePlasma: http://www.gameplasma.com There's Always Next Year: NJ Devils 4Ever Gamertag: Restless Devil
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Spiderfan Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 10/29/07 7:03am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Darth_Pazuzu posted: Believe it or not, when I first saw Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters in 1984, at the age of eleven, I didn't really get the humor in it. The comedy part just totally went over my head, and I actually took the film as a straight-ahead supernatural romp. And I gotta say that those darn terror dogs scared the living crap out of me! Even the sight of that giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man stomping through the streets of Manhattan like King Kong or Godzilla was actually terrifying in its sheer absurd surreality! What no credit for Aykroyd? Ghostbusters was intended to span genres. Naturally given the creators and the intended cast (originally Aykroyd and John Belushi who died before Aykroyd could refine the concept enough to pitch to people) there was always going to be a comedic element, not to mention the concept was entirely original and was inspired by the slap-stick ghost smashing comedies of old. But Aykroyd's obsession with the paranormal and supernatural definitely factored in as well and the intention was for it to be part comedy and part horror film. They went so far as to utilize the effects talents of people employed on Poltergeist to create a surreal but tangible effects style. And for any kid who grew up in the 80s it was definitely frightening. I mean who doesn't get chills seeing the door to Dana's kitchen warp an bend like that, seeing those arms pop out of the chair to hold her down as her chair flies across the room towards the horrible looking Terror Dog, Zuul. Granted some of the effects are terribly silly, others are just bad, but in its time it was horribly scary. I couldn't watch several scenes with sound for years...yet still wore out two copies of the movie. -----signature----- Brain and Brain! What is Brain?!
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/10/07 6:29pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	A horror comedy, perhaps.
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DAR Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 11/12/07 8:35pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	I consider something like City of God to be somewhat of a horror movie, especially the last scene. And because it was a true story it makes that much more frightening. -----signature----- Packers prediction 12-4 Actual 5-4
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Drac39 Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 11/13/07 5:54am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	What seperates a horror film from your thriller is that the situation the characters are placed in has to be larger than life -----signature----- "That's all there is to life, just a little laugh... a little tear"- Lon Chaney
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ghost_of_a_wookiee Registered: Jul '07	Date Posted: 11/13/07 6:46am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Cobranaconda posted: As for Wicker Man, I agree that it is pretty unnerving... for Christians. I nearly cheered the first time I saw it Had I not been alone at home I would have cheered at the end of Wicker Man because it actually had the guts to pull off such an ending. Very few films have the nerve to end without even a glimmer of hope or happiness. As Rogue said it was utterly horrifying and difficult to watch. I'm trying to think of another film besides it and Night of the Living Dead where I was actually shocked at the end, but I can't think of one. Surprised by a few twists and impressed by a the nature of a few others, the Departed comes to mind, but not one where the credits started rolling and I thought "They didn't just do that." -----signature----- Where success is equated with excess. The ambition for excess wrecks us.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/29/08 3:31pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Anything by Uwe Boll. But not because it's scary.
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JohnWesleyDowney Registered: Jan '04	Date Posted: 2/29/08 4:11pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"? - Date Edited: 2/29/08 4:12pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
	DAR posted: I consider something like City of God to be somewhat of a horror movie, especially the last scene. And because it was a true story it makes that much more frightening. Yeah, that was a different kind of horror movie from the usual kind, and I recoiled from that film more than most traditional horror films because it's view of the heartless gangmembers was so unfiltered. True horror. Seeing little children shot in their feet to terrorize the neighborhood was a sight I will never forget. The sight of the one little boy about five or six years old hobbling away from the gang on one foot is truly horror of an unsettling kind. My current definition of a horror film is one where the oh-so-trendy director shoots everything in shakey-cam and makes me want to vomit. This technique is now in vogue and is a terrific one for directors who do not even remotely have a clue how to direct a film. For me, that is true horror. Giving me motion sickness does not mean you are a great director. I can get that in an amusement park on a roller coaster. Tell me a story about human beings please, and do it artfully with a balance of content and technique. I'm actually smart enough to know that there needs to be something of substance behind technique, so you can't fool me with "flashy." But if I stay in the movie long enough, your movie will make me throw up. And that's horror of a kind, but not what I'm looking for. -----signature----- Namaste.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 3/1/08 9:29am Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	I like a tricky, unnerving ending. What I don't like is gore.
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rogue_wookiee Registered: Apr '04	Date Posted: 3/1/08 1:23pm Subject: RE: So what is your definition of a "horror movie"?
	Zaz posted: I like a tricky, unnerving ending. What I don't like is gore. Shouldn't you be saying that you dislike gore for the sake of gore? Because gore used properly as disturbing imagery is essential for many great horror films. The Romero films certainly come to mind as films that would have been nowhere near as effective were it not for the gore effects. -----signature----- “You’re probably the biggest taxer in the country, even bigger than the Congress,” - Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve. Be aware of inflation and how it affects our daily life. http://mises.org/story/2914 -What You Should Know About Inflation
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